Science Market Update

U.Mass Amherst Receives $4.8M in Alzheimer's Funding

Posted by Jennifer Nieuwkerk on Tue, Jan 07, 2014

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, as part of a multi-institution research team, received $4.8 million in life science funding from the National Cancer Institute as part of a five-year life science grant to research a way to target various diseases including Alzheimer’s, cancer and graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) by changing the function of an enzyme that sets in motion over 100 different protein substrates in the body.

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